Speed regulating device



E. P.' WILLIAMS 2,386,645

SPEED REGULATING DEVICE Oct. 9, 1945.

Filed NOV. 24, 1942 FIG. 2

' lNl ENTOR E. P. W/LL IAMS A 7' TORNEP Qbjectspf the invention are o simplify-and reduce" the cost ofmanufacturing devices of this a type and to make them more'reliable in service. Heretofore, speed regulating devices have been used in which a rotary member is provided with loaded weights attached thereto which. were adapted to swing outwardly in response to centrifugal forces to operate on a stationary friction V rotary member and a friction drum is so located as to be frictionally engaged by said members [when subjected to centrifugal forces'imparted thereto by the rotation of'said cage and. driving member.

The invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which F g. 1 shows an embodiment of the invention in a governor driven by a gear wheel.

Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on, line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the speed regulating mechanism may include a shaft l fixedly secured to a supporting frame member 2 at 3. To the opposite end of this shaft l is secured a friction drum 5 by means of a washer 5 and nut I on the shaft 2. Rotatably mounted on shaft l is=a gear pinion I driven by a gear II. To this pinion I0 is riveted at 2 a cage .member consisting of a central fiat portion l3 and four members bent at right angles from the central portion l3 to form a rectangular box. or cage, these members are numbered I4, I5, l6 and I1. These members extend almost to the inside bottom surface of the friction drum as shown at l9. Between the member I5 on one hand and the members l4 and IS on the other hand is mounted a weighted member 22 having a recessed portion 23throu'gh which the free end of cage member 15 extends. While between member l'l on the one hand and the members I4 and IS on the other hand a similar weighted member 25 is mounted and provided with a recessed portion 21 through which the member I1 extends. These members are main- .{XorK N a corporation of'Newlfork Application November 24, 1942,se ialNtq iecgszz f p v 1 ifeless; 101;. 188 184) P 1 .7 f r V k 7 high n i v i t .thesemembes tained in their'position's inside the friction drum Ernest P. Williams, Maplewood, N. J assignor -Bell TelephoneLabol-atorie s, Incorporated,-Newif f he '2. ini i s i o ar Ihefr sht' q k ne a F .1, re,pr vented. rcmish it ns owar s he l t-b he? bot o s 'fa ej 11 I l' j.e,v ot on drum 5after 'thisdru'm has been put in place. The outer surfaces'of the members 22 and 25 are semi-circular of a somewhat shorter. diameter than the inside diameter of the friction drum. The members 22 and 25 are therefore, due to the division of the outer surface thereof in two portions, arranged to engage the friction drum at two widely separated points. The purpose. of this is to guard against these members sticking or binding on the friction drum while rotating. When the cage members and gear pinion ID are rotated bythe gear ll, centrifugal forces will therefore cause: the members 22 and 25 to be forced outwardly against the inner surface of the friction drum 5 and thus regulate the speed of the driving gear while they are held in the cage formed by the members l4 to H. Applicant has therefore produced a simple and readily assembled speed regulating mechanism requiring no flexible springs and which depends on the weight of the floating members alone for accurately regulating the speed, and not as in the prior art on weights as well as tension of holding springs for the weights. 7

Applicant's invention, however, is not confined to the particular disclosure shown but may readily be applied to other forms of cage and weight structures without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A governor comprising a rotatable member, a stationary drum, two weights inside said drum having outside surfaces conforming approximately with the inside surface of the drum, a bracket-secured to said member and having four arms extending inside said drum to form approximately a square enclosing said weights, two of said arms engaging outside opposite depressions in said two weights and the other two arms located between the two weights so that said weights are loosely held with the curved surfaces facing the inside surface of the drum to frictionally engage said surfaceunder the influence of centrifugal force acting on said weights when said member and bracket are rotated to regulate the speed of said member.

2. A governor comprising a rotatable member, a stationary friction drum, two weights inside said drum each having a central longitudinally located groove dividing the outer surface thereof in two separate friction surfaces and a bracket se- 3. A governor comprising a stationary shaft, apinion mounted for rotation on one-end oftsaid= shaft, a stationary friction drum mounted at the opposite end of said shaft, a=bracketmounted"on said pinion having four armsextending-into said" drum, two weights mounted and loosely heldbe tween said arms in diametrically opposite:;p osi-:-

tions inside said drum so that they are free to engage with their outer surfaces the innerfrictionssurface of the. drum under the influence of centrifugal. forces. when rotated. by, said pinion and...bracket and so, shaped and located between said; arms that each weightiwill engage the. drum at two separate portionsiof. their. respective .outer surfaces, one of the arms of the bracket extending between said portions on each weight but detached therefrom and the other two arms extending between the two weights but detached therefrom, said arms serving to loosely guide said weights during their rotation.

4. A governor comprising a driving member, a friction drum having a single inside circular circumferential f friction surface;- two weights inside said drum each having an indentation in the center to form two independent friction surfaces, and a bracket secured to the driving member havingfOurarms, two arms located to separate the weights and cause them to face with their respective friction surfaces'said friction surface of the drum andgeacheofjthe two other arms located in the indentation of the corresponding weights to cause-.the weightsto be driven by said last-mentioned two arms when the bracket is rotated but befree to engage with their respective friction surfacesv at balanced pressures under the influence of centrifugaltforce said-friction surface of the drum to regulate the speed of rotation of ,thezdriving. member} accordingly,

ERNEST: P. WILLIAMS. 

